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De praestantia music©Œ veteris : libri tres totidem dialogis comprehensi in quibus vetus ac recens musica, cum singulis earum partibus, accurate inter se conferunter ; adiecto ad finem Onomastico selectorum vocabulorum, ad hanc facultatem cum elegantia & proprietate tractandam, pertinentium ; ad eminentiss Cardinalem Mazarinum

by: Doni, Gio. Battista (Giovanni Battista), 1593 or 1594-1647, author; Foroliuien, Mass©Œ, printer

Publication date: 1647
Topics: Music, Music, Greek and Roman
Publisher: Florenti©Œ : Typis Amatoris Mass©Œ Foroliuien
Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana
Contributor: Boston Public Library
Language: Latin
Item Size: 377.9M

Statement of responsibility transposed from head of title page

Signatures: [dagger]́þ A-X́þ

Pages 145-166 misnumbered 245-266

Includes list of errata on p. 265

Joshua Bates;

Catalogued

Boston Public Library (Allen A. Brown Collection) copy quarter-bound in marbled brown and burgundy leather over boards. Spine title, authorial name, date of publication, and decorative parallel bars in gilt. Printed on antique laid papers with horizontal chainlines and vertical wire lines. Front pastedown and recto/verso of front flyleaf includes extensive handwritten annotations/commentary in Italian in black ink script, dated 1785. Title page includes autograph in black ink script, and embossed stamp of the Boston Public Library. Rear pastedown includes donors' ex libris (bookplate) of the Boston Public Library identifying Joshua Bates as the donor, received on September 15, 1859